WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, brought home funding to support Wisconsin farmers, rural communities, water infrastructure, and tribal nations in the government funding legislation signed into law earlier this month. "Wisconsin farmers are the beating heart of our rural communities, and I've worked alongside them to preserve generations of family farm  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the Tax Relief for Victims of Crimes, Scams, and Disasters Act, legislation to give relief to those who have been victims of fraud, scams, thefts, accidents, and other personal casualty losses. The legislation reinstates the tax deduction for personal casualty and theft losses that were stripped away by the 2017 GOP tax law, forc  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: * * * Op-ed: My Family Struggled With Hunger. If Congress Won't Fully Fund WIC, Millions More Will, Too Growing up, I was an A student, president of the Student Council, and poor. However, benefits my mother received made me ineligible for free lunch. As a result, I often went without breakfast or lunch entirely. I would find myself eating leftovers from other people's plates. One day, I decided I wasn't  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sens. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) in sending a letter to Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso, M.D. (R-Wyo.) requesting a meeting of the conference the week of April 8th, to discuss potential reforms to the budget process. "As we rush to finalize the 202  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands, issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on six bills addressing the Biden administration's federal overreaches and public land limitations. Subcommittee Chairman Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) issued the following statement in response: "The White House's out-of-touch, preservationist policies are hu  more